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Suggested edit under “Biologists”

Gorelick et al, in the Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society, find no universal differences between males and females: https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article/120/1/1/2864987

This would appear to undermine the cited claim from Majerus that gamete size is the only universal difference. 2A00:23C6:8A05:B001:A845:2054:6D3E:A2BA (talk) 13:44, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What about pelvis and reproductive organs… 108.24.127.83 (talk) 23:05, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OP misstated the research's title. It's "No universal differences between female and male eukaryotes: anisogamy and asymmetrical female meiosis" EvergreenFir (talk) 23:13, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Suggested inclusion of the Institute for Sexual Science as early researchers & potential exclusion of John Money

The second paragraph states: "Though sex and gender have been used interchangeably at least as early as the fourteenth century, this usage was not common by the late 1900s. Sexologist John Money pioneered the concept of a distinction between biological sex and gender identity in 1955."

I think there is necessary context in the works of the Institute for Sexual Science and the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee under Magnus Hirschfeld, which were active from the very late 19th century until 1933. This might be a complex undertaking due to the language barrier and lack of grammatical differentiation between "sex" and "gender" in German. Seeing as the Institute for Sexual Science provided early forms of what we would call 'gender-affirming care' today, there seems to have been some differentiation, likely stemming from Hirschfeld's theory of "Sexual Intermediacy".

John Money as a whole seems controversial for this section, as his own page points out he did not coin the phrase "gender identity" but rather "gender role" and his theories may not represent the contemporary idea of "gender". The excerpt on his own page 'Money believed that de-stereotyping sex roles might prevent people from wanting to transition, arguing “a tomboy-ish girl, prenatally androgenized, grows up to be a career-minded woman, not a transsexual who claims to need sex reassignment”.' actually implies the opposite, since prenatal androgenization would be a factor of sex, rather than gender.

Additionally, it seems misleading to bring up John Money's 1955 work first (and as pioneering), before naming Issac Madison Bentley and his work from a decade prior. Is there any reason why they wouldn't be listed chronologically? 95.90.183.82 (talk) 15:02, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Adding to this: The beginning of the section on Feminist Theory starts by naming Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex" as "responsible for bringing the sex/gender distinction into feminist theory".

This would contradict John Money's "pioneering" status, as it was released in 1949 and therefore predates John Money's 1955 claim. 95.90.183.82 (talk) 15:16, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]